Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-24
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

STRONG flow of natural gas has been
struck at Cerre Gordo, Piatt county, Ill.
at depth of ITO feet.
LINGa, enc of the condemned Chicago
anarchists, committed suicide in his cell
on Thursday morning by means Of full
minating cap.
The failures for the week number PIT
against 245 last week, and 231 for the
corresponding period in 1886.
The next annual meeting of the Ma
tional Teachers Association will be held
In San Francisco next summer.
The Central Bank, of Canada, located
at Toronto, has suspended, owing to the
,'stringency In the money market"
The drive-well patent case appealed to
the supreme court of the United States
from Iowa, has been decided against
Hovey, the alleged patentee.
A SUIT involving 100000 has been in
stituted by the Columbus. Hooking Val
ley and Toledo railroad against Winslow,
Lanier d Co., New York bankers.
The funeral procession or the sympa-
thizers of the executed anarchists in
Chicago, Sunday, numbered about 5000
persons. and it was attended by no dis
turbance.
The Baptist Congress of the United
States is in session at indianapolis. Hon.
j. r. Doolittle, of Chicago, was one of the
princip pal speakers, his theme being, "The
Land Question"
Hon. WILLIAM A. j. SPARKS having be-
come involved in a personal controversy
with his superior officer, the secretary of
the interior, has resigned the Office of
u. S. land commissioner.
The protracted drouth in Southern
Illinois and Indiana, attended by dried
up streams and wells, exhausted cisterns
and forest fires, has at last been broken
by copious rains.
FAVORABLE trade conditions in all sec
tions of the country are reported by R.
G. Dun d Co. Provisions and grain have
advanced, iron is stronger, footwear is in
brisk demand, and cotton and WOODEN
goods are being sold at better prices.
MISS CLARA LOUISA KELLOGG, the ia
nous American Vocalist, in a teleg ram to
her mother in New York, confirms the re-
port of her marriage to Carl Strakosch at
Elkhart.
EXTENSIVE forest fires are raging
uuEOugu bu0 WEST GIL cOuutl0S OI L en-
nessee and the eastern counties of Ar
kansas. The surrounding atmosphere is
SO full of smoke that navigation on the
Mississippi river is delayed.
The anarchists Schwab and Fielden,
who are now in the Joliet penitentary
have been set at work. The latter finds
material for his talents in the marble
shop while Schwab will exercise his genius
in the bakery.
DIR. PORTER, of Tampa, Fla, telegraph
ed to Surgeon General Hamilton that vel
low fever has made it's appearance at
Manatee, where three deaths had occurred.
There are sixteen cases there, and the
population is only 300.
AT meeting of representative Eastern
railroad men Tuesday at New York, a
committee was appointed to present at a
future gathering general scheme for
the heating of cars by steam.
A PHILADELPHIA paper announces that
the reorganization of the New Jersey
Central Road has been practically &C
complished, and the holders of obliga-
tions to the amount of $31, 1858, 900 have
approved the scheme.
In ST. Clements Church, Philadel phia,
at noon, Tuesday, Miss Edith Horner,
of England, was married to Senator
Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. The
bride has been for several years one of
the head nurses in Bloodley Hos pital.
JUsTUs SoHwAB and others in New York
propose to appeal to the "toilers of the
world'' to raise fund for tbs mafnten-
ance of the families of the Chicago an
archists, who in future will be known as
the "Wards of liberty"
Forty brakemen on the Chicago, Mil
waukee q ST. Paul at Mason, Iowa, struck
work Monday, positively refusing TO go
out on double headers" A strike is i'm
minent of the division from Mason City
TO Chamberlain, ID. L.
AT crossing In Allegheny City, Pa,
Thursday night, freight train dashed
against the rear end of a street car,
which was filled with passengers. The
car was partly wrecked, and John M.
Culp and a young woman named Harriet
Weymar, who had rushed to the rear plat
form, were knocked off and ground to
pieces under the wheels of the engine.
Other passengers were not injured.